June 2013 Comic Book Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Comics Shipped to North American Comics Shops
Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

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With June sales, orders for comic books, graphic novels, and collected editions for the first half of the year came in just a few thousand dollars shy of the quarter-billion dollar mark. The second-quarter growth rates were all positive, although the year-to-year changes were smaller than those seen in the second quarter of 2012, which was the last quarter comparing against the period before the DC relaunch.

Superman Unchained #1led the market with first-month orders of more than 251,000 copies; the Combo Pack adds another 5,300. That made it the second-best selling comic book of the year to that point, behind Justice League of America #1. DC took the top three slots on the chart, followed by Marvel, which had Age of Ultron #10 as its top seller.

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 300 charts, plus any post-#300 items from its Top 50 Indy and Small Publisher charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.
Items marked with asterisks [*] had their reported orders reduced by 10% due to returnability.
Distributor charts are regional commodity reports, not measures of a work's total reach. Read our FAQ.
The links lead to current listings for each item on eBay. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

June 2013 Graphic Novel Sales to Comics Shops

Estimated Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks Shipped to North American Comics Shops Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

This list includes all items on Diamond's Top 300 charts, plus any post-#300 items from its Top 50 Indy, Manga, and Small Publisher charts. If you don't see a book, Diamond released no data for it.

The links lead to details about each title on Amazon. You can also find the books at your comics shop.

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The new Walking Dead collection, Walking Dead Vol. 18: What Comes Afterwas the top-seller among graphic novels and collected editions in a month in which sales for those were slightly off the totals for June 2012.

All comics sold by Diamond (in dollars)(+5% vs. same month previous year)

Year to date(+2% vs. previous year)

GRAPHIC NOVEL DOLLAR SALES

The Top 300 Graphic Novels sold had a total retail price of$6.8 million

(-9% vs. same month previous year)(+26% vs. same month 5 years earlier)(+40% vs. same month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 50 vs. Top 50)(+77% vs. same month 15 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25)

Category to date for year:$46.18 million(+14% vs. previous year)

All comics and graphic novels sold by Diamond (in dollars)(-3% vs. same month previous year)

Year to date(+10% vs. previous year)

COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVEL DOLLAR SALES

The Top 300 Comics and Top 300 Graphic Novels sold had a combined total retail price of$32.37 million

(unchanged vs. same month previous year)(+9% vs. same month 5 years earlier)(+50% vs. same month 10 years earlier, comparing just the Top 50 GNs vs. Top 50 GNs)(+54% vs. same month 15 years earlier, comparing just the Top 25 GNs vs. the Top 25 GNs)

Category to date for year:$196.63 million(+13% vs. previous year)

All graphic novels sold by Diamond (in dollars)(+3% vs. same month previous year)

Note: This category diverges slightly from Diamond's reported measures for all comics and graphic novels. Slight differences are introduced by the presence of magazines and other factors.

Average cost of comics in the Top 300:$3.65

Average cost of comics in the Top 300, weighted by orders:$3.65

Average cost of comics in the Top 25:$3.87

Median cost of comics in the Top 300:$3.99

Most common cost of comics in the Top 300:$3.99

MARKET SHARES

Share of Overall Units

Marvel

38.29%

DC

32.03%

Image

8.31%

IDW

5.01%

Dark Horse

4.64%

Dynamic Forces

2.30%

Boom

1.82%

Valiant

1.03%

Avatar

0.84%

Aspen

0.80%

Zenescope

0.79%

Archie

0.58%

Eaglemoss

0.36%

Bongo

0.36%

Viz

0.30%

Oni

0.26%

Titan

0.18%

Random House

0.17%

Hachette

0.12%

Fantagraphics

0.07%

Other

1.76%

Share of Overall Dollars

Marvel

32.77%

DC

29.57%

Image

8.77%

IDW

6.55%

Dark Horse

5.51%

Dynamic Forces

2.40%

Boom

1.93%

Eaglemoss

1.76%

Valiant

1.04%

Avatar

0.91%

Zenescope

0.84%

Random House

0.78%

Viz

0.69%

Archie

0.57%

Aspen

0.51%

Hachette

0.43%

Oni

0.39%

Fantagraphics

0.38%

Titan

0.32%

Bongo

0.29%

Other

3.60%

Items in Top 300

Marvel

76

DC

70

IDW

32

Image

30

Dark Horse

25

Dynamic Forces

19

Zenescope

10

Boom

8

Valiant

6

Aspen

5

Avatar

5

Bongo

4

Archie

2

Oni

2

Black Mask

2

United Plankton

2

Abstract

1

Archaia

1

Share of Units in Top 300

Marvel

42.01%

DC

33.52%

Image

7.20%

IDW

4.77%

Dark Horse

4.30%

Dynamic Forces

2.11%

Boom

1.30%

Valiant

1.11%

Zenescope

0.84%

Avatar

0.74%

Aspen

0.69%

Bongo

0.36%

Archie

0.29%

United Plankton

0.19%

Oni

0.18%

Black Mask

0.16%

Abstract

0.12%

Archaia

0.10%

Share of Dollars in Top 300

Marvel

42.91%

DC

33.00%

Image

6.28%

IDW

5.33%

Dark Horse

4.14%

Dynamic Forces

2.31%

Boom

1.42%

Valiant

1.21%

Avatar

0.81%

Zenescope

0.81%

Aspen

0.43%

Bongo

0.34%

Archie

0.24%

United Plankton

0.20%

Oni

0.20%

Black Mask

0.15%

Abstract

0.13%

Archaia

0.10%

Dollar Share of Top 300 Comics & Top 300 TPBs

Marvel

37.95%

DC

32.28%

Image

9.17%

IDW

5.67%

Dark Horse

5.32%

Dynamic Forces

1.94%

Boom

1.53%

Valiant

1.14%

Zenescope

0.73%

Avatar

0.69%

Random House

0.46%

Viz

0.35%

Aspen

0.34%

Bongo

0.27%

Archie

0.26%

Oni

0.23%

Top Shelf

0.16%

Fantagraphics

0.16%

United Plankton

0.16%

St. Martins

0.16%

Hachette

0.12%

Black Mask

0.12%

Abstract

0.10%

Humanoids

0.09%

Archaia

0.08%

Slave Labor

0.08%

Crystal

0.06%

Broadsword

0.06%

Panini

0.05%

Digital Manga

0.05%

801 Media

0.04%

Omnibus

0.04%

Drawn & Quarterly

0.04%

Adhouse

0.04%

Big Dog

0.03%

NBM

0.03%

Angry Viking

0.02%

THE FINE PRINT

The monthly sales estimates at right are for items shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond does not publish sales figures; instead it publishes "indexed" sales tables, in which it keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to a single comic book (usually Batman), with one “order index point” being equal to 1% of that title’s orders.

Along with other methods, we use the actual Diamond final orders from titles to approximate what an order index point equals each month.The result is applied to the Diamond charts to produce the estimates seen at right.

The figures represent only those comics and graphic novels that Diamond shipped to North American retailers in the calendar month. While Diamond's sales represent the majority of periodicals in circulation, they are a smaller portion of the overall graphic novel market.

An item may appear in more than one month's charts due to reorders; for a better idea of a comic book's overall sales, look for its end-of-year sales in the Year Overview section, where available.

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